Nicholas Woodman - GoPro

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The momentum you're seeing in our business is really coming from our intense focus on efficiency and execution. We are reducing costs wherever possible, and that's going to continue, ongoing, in the company. We are very disciplined as it relates to schedule and that's allowing us to launch products on time this year.feedback

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Nicholas Woodman has been quoted 23 times. The one recent article where Nicholas Woodman has been quoted is GoPro shares surge 20% after earnings: 'We still have significant room to grow, ' CEO says. Most recently, Nicholas Woodman was quoted as having said, “We're investing in more areas now. We're making investments in the drone market, and we're having success there, and we're making significantly more investments in software. .... While we are spending more than in our pre-IPO years, we're also getting a lot more done for the customer.”.

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You have got to be focused on something that you are personally passionate about. I followed my gut, because I didn't know any better. One of the great benefits of ignorance is just you can create something that hasn't existed before because you didn't know any better. Be careful how much you listen to other people.feedback

Looking forward to 2017, we expect to return to profitability, driven by the strength of our new products, double digit revenue growth and annual operating expenses of approximately $650 million.feedback

Karma is simply the best solution out there for stabilization in the air or handheld or mounted to your favorite gear. And GoPro is the only company in the world that is making this solution possible, so I think we're in a really good position.feedback

It's the most exciting product we've ever made. It's certainly the most enabling product in terms of helping people capture incredible professional-quality footage of their lives and share stories like they're used to seeing on the big screen at the movies.feedback

We've been working with Red Bull for years and we've helped co-promote each other and help each other globally rise above the noise and scale awareness for our respective brands, but we decided that it was time to get official about it.feedback

We've got a terrific product road map. 2016 is the single most exciting year for new product that we've ever had at GoPro. Whether it's hardware, software, entertainment products that we're developing, this is the biggest year ever for GoPro.feedback

We acquired them to accelerate our vision of making it easy for people to create and share engaging content. We think that the mobile platform, your smartphone, and tablet are the best and most convenient platforms for editing in the future.feedback

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We're investing in more areas now. We're making investments in the drone market, and we're having success there, and we're making significantly more investments in software. .... While we are spending more than in our pre-IPO years, we're also getting a lot more done for the customer.feedback

I think the smartphone actually creates an incredible opportunity for GoPro. Our opportunity is to make GoPro aligned with how people use their smartphone.... as smartphone adoption grows, so grows the opportunity for GoPro.feedback

We feel good about second quarter, and we think that things are tracking just as we shared on our earnings call, and we're really happy with the turnaround that we're seeing in our business. Customers are using our products more than ever here, and Hero 5 is doing really well – which is boding well for the second quarter.feedback

We've recognized over the past couple of years that we need to focus keenly on one customer, and that is the person who buys a GoPro. In the quarters after going public, we were making different investments, placing different bets. Some of those bets didn't work out. And we're refocusing. Sales are good. It's all good signs that we are improving our business, and that's something we intend to build on throughout the year.feedback

Our mission has never changed....which is that we believe that there's a megatrend of consumers who are visually expressing and sharing themselves more and more online. Where we fell out a little bit in our post-IPO years was that we failed to make GoPro contemporary and failed to align with the smartphone movement.feedback

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